San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1887-10-20
PERSONAL.

Mrs. Ella Denton Given In residing at San
Antonio.
Rev. q. W. Briggs. Of Dallas preached
here on Thursday night last.
Mr.. M. B. Ownby viii hereafter only
carry on the timing business.
A younger brother Of Mr.. Neighbors re-
turned with him from Kentucky.
The Oldest daughter of Mr.. ]. NJ. Wolf
has been quite sick the past week.
Mrs. Gresham, Of Cleburn. Ia visiting ler
father, Rev. Mr.. Beverly. Of this place.
Mr.. Watson Is excepting bachelors hall"
while Mrs. w. visits their old home in
Eastern Texas.
Prof. }. A. Thomas favors us with nth-
or suggestive article. II will be found on
our first page.
We had pleasant call from Mr.. O. @.
Montgomery, from tho upper part of the
county on Tuesday.
John Brady Is the champion deer-slayer
in these parts Nor does he find II neces-
sary to 60 very far to fnd them.
Miss Rosa Mclaughlin Is teaching again
in the Owens neighborhood on the Blanco,
where she taught laat winter.
Our townsman, Mr.. E. Northoraft, has
secured the position of architect and builder
of the State reformatory at Gainesville.
The fact that Roger Byrnes is Offering his
saloon for sale is significant Of the prospect
i've unproftableness of the whisky traffic.
Mr.. Mcclellan has sold the Candy Factory
to Mr.. Lester, who will take possession on
Monday. Mcclellan q Wills retain the Blue
Front.
Ralph Smith succeeds Jerry Smith in the
dray business. Jerry succeeded Alex Smith.
The business seems to be fixed by the
Smith family.
August Franks, our worthy carpenter
friend, is the latest departure for California
of whom We have heard. He leaves his
family here for the present.
Mollie E. Moore Davis, we notice, is
again on visit to Comanche where we be-
lieve she has brother or sister. We should
think she would call by" this, her child
hoods home.
We learn from the Blanco Star that Mr..
d. Foltz gave up his mail contract from
Blanco TO San Marcos and from Blanco to
Twin Sisters last Thursday to parties living
at Wimberly.
Wo learned at Kerrville, that Mrs. De-
loney, well known here, who married Rev.
Mr.. Littlepage, Methodist preacher, is re-
siding ut Columbus, her husband having
been assigned to that place.
Mr.. L. E. Owen was in our Office on yes
terday and stated that he had raised Is tons
of fodder from II acres of ground planted
in sorghum, and received 1872 for the Sec
ond crop on the same ground.
Our worthy townsmnn, Mr.. w. s. Gray,
has gone to Lyons Station. Burleson Co.
We understood him to say that his family
ars soon to follow, but he retains his prop
erty here. We hope his removal will be
only temporary.
We are just in receipt of letter from
Mr.. j. E. Hunter, sending his observations
on the Pacific coast It will appear in our
next In his next he promises us one on
Los Angeles and its surrounding. He says
the outlook in Los Angeles is better to-day
than ever before.
The Seguin Record states that Sarah
Ewing, an old colored woman, who has
been cooking for Mrs. Taylor for long
time, died suddenly short time since of
bilious collie, and requests the San Marcos
papers to copy. She came to Seguin about
three months ago.
Mr.. Chapman, the photographer, proposes,
if sufficient encouragement is given him by
our people, to get up series of fine photo
graphic views in and around this place, to
be issued in book form, for the purpose Of
advertising the town. etc. A commendable
idea of which probably more anon.
We notice by San Antonio paper that
Mr.. G. G. Bills and Mrs. Alice Burleson
were married on the 9Th inst, at the resi-
dence of the bride in Lockhart. Mr.. B., it
will be remembered formerly resided at
this place, from whence he removed to San
Antonio. He will now reside at Lockhart.
Mr.. Bozarth, of the Wjnberly nurseries,
was in town the first of the week and pre-
sented us with full grown ripe banana of
his own raising. He says it is entirely
praotable to raise bananas here simply by
giving the stalks as they stand protection in
winter, which can be done without much
trouble.
Mr.. Maddox, the keeper Of our Poor
Farm, was in our office on yesterday in
furtherance of an effort to secure a pension
for B. F, Vanlandingham. an ex- Union
soldier, now an inmate of said institution.
Mr.. " needs pecuniary aid, and, If proved
to be entitled to q pension, we earnestly
hope he may obtain 1t.
j. M. Simpson. who had been in business
here about year, and conducting himself
in an unobjectionable manner, so far as we
are informed, was recently found to be an
escaped penitentiary convict. and returned
to one of their working camps near Kings
bury. He only owes four months service,
and we hope thereafter may continue in
well doing
Peyton and Thomas Taylor have bought
the property in this place formerly occupied
by them (now Woolfolk's bakery. The
former will return from Seguin to this place
about the first of November, and his wife
will again open her restaurant, and will be
glad TO meet her old friends. So it goes
people who have resided In San Marcos can
not stay away.
VIM & Pope have removed their meal
market to the stand Just in the rear Of
Daley 4 Bros. store, the building having
been enlarged and fitted up for that pur
pose. We learn that the postoffice will also
have to be removed ere long, the owner ol
that corner intending to improve or occupy
1t. This is TO be regretted. for 1t will bs
difficult to find location for the postofics
90 generally acceptable as is the present.
We are indebted 10 our friend Mr.. J. Z
Hunter for frequent Los Angeles papers, IN
one of which, the Herald, we find the fol